Sniper: The White Raven

Brilliantly filmed, emotionally powerful, this is one of the best movies about the Russian war in Ukraine. Despite not knowing Russian and seeing the movie in subtitles in Croatian, I was mesmerized by the story, the acting and the truly amazing cinematography. If you can find it with English subtitles you will be well rewarded!

I would have given this movie a higher rating but it was impossible to watch the action and read the subtitles. I would sooner have shitty voice dubbing than subtitles.

Très bon film Aussi la fin ca serait très bon début d'un autre film aussi bon avec le même acteur principal et le même réalisateur

A little cheesy early on but a good, relevant, war movie

One of the best war films I've ever seen. Hyper-realistic with fantastic performances all around.

It's a good war action movie.

Plus, plus for authenticity. It certainly doesn't put Russians in a good light, and that's another plus. I don't know if the US can make a war movie this good.

The subtitles really fast, and it was irritating to have to freeze the screen so that I could read them. I didn't understand why the reporter saying was necessary, as I don't believe it added anything to the movie more time could've been spent on a love affair between the husband and the wife. I guess that would be called backstory. I did feel the pain and I otherwise love the movie.

Spoilers: This was a multidimensional success, a Ukrainian scientist, quasi-hippy in a makeshift hut in the country, teacher, pacifist in Donbas turns military sniper after wife and unborn child are killed by Russian fueled Ukrainian raiders. It shows news savvy split in Ukrainians, some fighting for Ukraine, some for Russia, with ethnic ties to Russia. But it mostly shows a conversion of the new sniper his comrades call Raven, telling soldiers who first find him, beaten, and his wife shot dead, as they bury her for him. Raven tells them only "We have to throw them out." And he gets very serious about this business, rising to the top sniper in his unit of maybe a dozen snipers, after surviving ridicule of being called a pacifist. Is it justice he seeks or revenge? Among the rest, this is the best explication of how a sniper unit trains and works, what they wear. After you shoot, don't move at all -- the enemy will look for even the slightest movement to return fire. When Raven sees the two who killed his pregnant wife, he ignores orders, opens fire and kills one. It gets his captain beside him killed. Later he sees the other one and kills him, too, on a mission to ferret out the top Russian sniper, who killed his captain. and Raven gets him too, not on a dry-gulch sniper shot, but up close and personal with a knife to the neck. At the end, he heads back to the war after a quick stop at his burned out home, with the peace sign in front made from white rocks on the ground. his wife's grave nearby. Plenty more to do. It's about Ukraine and fighting back against Russians and sympathizers. But it is on another level about any man's move to war, to avenge or protect his own family, not about politics, nor ethics.

Given the timing. It's hard not to think that it is timely released propaganda. Anyways, it's all right military action film.